Table 2. Phonological processes of onset clusters in the Buckeye Corpus. The column head orth represents the orthographic forms, while pron stands for the pronounced phonetic symbols of English consonants. n is the number of occurrences, and ∅ represents deletion.
Orth | Pron | n | Orth | Pron | n | Orth | Pron | n |
bl | bl | 597 | hhy | hhy | 51 | sw | sw | 86 |
Ø | 151 | ly | ly | 70 | thr | thr | 543 |
l | 104 | y | 50 | th | 53 |
b | 103 | my | my | 154 | tr | tr | 476 |
br | br | 470 | ny | ny | 218 | chr | 425 |
by | by | 68 | pl | pl | 758 | r | 131 |
dr | dr | 382 | pr | pr | 1,535 | tw | tw | 294 |
jhr | 102 | p | 175 | vr | vr | 570 |
dy | jh | 77 | py | py | 152 | r | 126 |
fl | fl | 217 | sf | sf | 57 | v | 60 |
fr | fr | 987 | sk | sk | 1,022 | vy | vy | 59 |
f | 191 | sl | sl | 236 | skr | skr | 73 |
fy | fy | 113 | sm | sm | 196 | spl | spl | 57 |
gl | gl | 76 | sp | sp | 847 | str | str | 234 |
gr | gr | 979 | st | st | 2,873 | schr | 92 |
kl | kl | 760 | s | 133 | r | 91 |
kr | kr | 513 | ch | 67 | | | |
kw | kw | 321 | | | | | | |
ky | ky | 146 | | | | | | |